The scorching heat currently gripping Japan has sent the temperature shooting up to 41.1 degrees Celsius in the central Japan city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
The figure, reached 10 minutes past noon on Monday, ties the country's record high, recorded in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, in July 2018.
Sony reported its fiscal first quarter results last week covering the three months to 30 June 2020. The actual performance for Sony's mobile business was not that interesting – Sony shipped 0.8 million smartphones, a slight decline from the 0.9 million units sold in the same period last year. Sony's latest flagship, the Xperia 1 II only launched in select regions towards the end of this quarter, so it wouldn't have impacted the results in any significant way.
High school baseball players have started a series of friendly matches at Koshien Stadium in western Japan.
Both the annual spring and summer high school baseball tournaments were cancelled this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The number of new cases in Tokyo continues to rise with a record-high 367 infections confirmed so far on Thursday.
At a meeting with experts, Tokyo governor Koike Yuriko called on people and businesses to make every effort to prevent infections.
The number of new coronavirus cases in Tokyo continues to rise with a record-high 367 infections confirmed so far on Thursday.
At a meeting with experts, Tokyo governor Koike Yuriko called on people and businesses to make every effort to prevent infections.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says its analysis of data collected by a weather satellite shows downpours that devastated a wide area in western Japan in early July were the heaviest in 20 years.
The agency's analysis shows the rainfall during the first 7 days of July in Kyushu and some parts of Chugoku and Shikoku hit a 20-year high for this time of the year.
Weather officials are urging people in the Kyushu region, southwestern Japan, to be on high alert for floods and landslides, as heavy rain continues.
Localized downpours are drenching Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, after record rainfalls wreaked havoc in neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture over the weekend. Kumamoto continued to see torrential rain on Monday morning.
Tokyo Metropolitan government officials say 67 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in the capital on Wednesday.
That is the highest daily tally since the state of emergency was lifted on May 25.
Japan's national debt has hit a new high for a fourth straight year.
The Finance Ministry says government debt stood at 1,114.54 trillion yen, or about 10.45 trillion dollars, at the end of March. That's an increase of about 104.85 billion dollars from a year earlier.
People in Japan traditionally display colorful carp-shaped streamers for Children's Day on May 5. Yamada Town in the northeast aimed a little higher than usual this year due to the coronavirus, which has kept many kids at home for the country's week-long spring holiday.
On Tuesday, about 130 of the carp streamers were hung at a lofty 25 meters in the parking lot of the local science museum. The display makes use of two mobile cranes.
Japan's annual summer inter-high school athletic meet has been cancelled due to the spread of coronavirus.
This is the first cancelation of the national sports event since it began in 1963.
Drinks with high-alcohol content are being resold online in Japan at marked-up prices. This follows a decision by the health ministry to allow medical facilities to use such products as substitutes for sanitizer.
The ministry announced the measure earlier this month to make up for shortages caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has confirmed 47 new cases of coronavirus infection, another daily high.
Government officials made the announcement at a news conference on Thursday.
Princess Aiko, the daughter of Japan's Emperor and Empress, has attended her graduation ceremony at Gakushuin Girls' Senior High School in Tokyo.
The princess was wearing a facemask as she appeared at the school on Sunday for a scaled-down ceremony amid the spread of the new coronavirus.